Call it Anglican Uniatism if it makes you feel better.  This is historic; especially to the American branch of the church of England.  The Anchoress has the best roundup.  For anyone who has contemplated swimming the Tiber - well, Benedict has just sent you a boat.  Welcome home.

Now - to the people I really want to talk to.  Liberal Catholics.

You want gay marriage, priestesses, pro-abortion, liberation theology, married priests and priestesses, gay bishops; all the nice, progressive things?

Well, High Priestess Katherine Schori has a deal for you.  Catholic Lite:  All the Ritual, Half the Guilt.  And even less ritual if you look for a low-church parish.

Please. Swim. The. Other. Way.

We’re sick of your whining, your clown masses, you don’t do a damn thing, you’ve not dropped so much as a sawbuck in the collection plate in years, you bitched about a return of the permanant diaconate (One more men only club), you bitch about the Latin Liturgy, the priest, altar boys instead of altar girls, the bishop, Rome, The Holy Father - the list goes on.

WTF do you like?  Nothing that I can see.  So why are you still here?  Everything you claim to want is right over there, on the other side of the Tiber.  Your American Catholic Church that yiou have long threatened is yours for the taking.

Go for it, dudes and dudettes.  The only thing between you and it is air and opportunity.  There’s even an existing structure there, and from what I have heard, HP KJS can use the help. Or at least asses in pews. Maybe you might even be tempted to toss a nickel or dime her way, too, for a change.  Fair warning, though - the amount of conservatives over there who are going to do the actual in the trenches work such as running the soup kitchen or passing out the presents to poor kids at Christmas is getting thinner, so you may have to do some of the icky dirty work, too.

If not, after Sunday Mass we have coffee and donuts in the rectory basement.  Before the Mass, though, a hot and steaming cup of Shut The Fuck Up is in order.

The lines are clearly drawn and the path both ways is bulldozed.  Either get over there, or fall in.  Either way, we’re sick of your foolishness.